Virginia will expand Medicaid or it will not: the possibility of compromise, of shifting the terms of agreement, does not seem to apply here. Thus Medicaid expansion threatens the façade of a bipartisan government—Democrats in the executive branch, Republicans in the legislature—and reminds us of the too-familiar downside of divided government: deadlock.
The flurry of white paper—a frenzy of resolutions and statements and letters volleyed between various academic groups—was as blinding and as icy (in tone, at least) as the polar vortex-induced snowfalls that bombarded the Midwest last week.
The managing board recounts some notable numerals
Until we can say with confidence that the SAT’s essays gauge student writing effectively, SAT scores should not exempt students from the first writing requirement.
Drunk driving might seem like an old-hat public health problem hardly worth discussing. But alcohol-related vehicle accidents continue to kill many college students every year.
The University receives marginal state support but produces fiercely loyal alumni. So it’s no wonder that philanthropy has emerged as an imagined cure-all for the University’s needs. And it’s no surprise that when it comes to AccessUVa, University leaders are looking to donors to make up the balance.
We’re pleased to welcome our first non-student staff member: Kirsten Steuber, a 2012 University graduate whom we’ve hired as a full-time advertising manager.
If state lawmakers were to follow the Loudoun board’s recommendation and introduce a bill mandating the University to cut out-of-state enrollment to 25 percent, they’d better be prepared to pick up the check.
To better match students with advisors, the College should require students to list five potential majors on an advising worksheet. The sheet would not commit students to any particular course of study.
For an example of national commitments overriding a concern for academic freedom, we need not look all the way to Beijing. Instead we can turn to Blacksburg.
The number of University students participating in study abroad has not changed much since 2007. In the 2007-2008 academic year, 1,927 students (both undergraduate and graduate) studied abroad. That number dipped the following year to 1,824 and has since remained roughly the same. In the 2012-2013 academic year, 1,975 students left the country.
First and foremost, our thoughts rest with Deeds and the people who are close to him. Yet we can’t help but dwell on a factor that almost certainly played a part in Tuesday morning’s dispute: the deficiencies in Virginia’s mental health-care infrastructure.
The revised system promises to create a leaner budget. But for all its sleekness, it comes with some hidden costs — some of which aren’t financial.
To delist the goals of the University is to risk the possibility of them being forgotten. And while the new mission statement is sleek and short, it is so broad and intangible that it fails to encapsulate what the long-term goals of the University should be.
The Board of Visitors gathers Friday in the Rotunda for another round of meetings. Of the items on the Board’s docket, two stand out: a meeting of the special committee on diversity, and a full Board meeting on the University’s strategic plan.
This tension — between, on the one hand, the presence of wealth, and, on the other hand, the desire to serve as a school for the public, a stepping-stone for the talented and disadvantaged — will play out at the University for the foreseeable future. For this reason, interest in AccessUVa — much like the interest on the loans low-income students will now be obliged to take out — will continue to accrue.
A recent New York Times article recounts the story of a college applicant whose explicit and offensive tweets were noticed by the college admissions officers at the school to which she was applying.
Why does it matter what words we use to talk about higher education? Because the terms we employ often stack the deck one way or the other. It is hard to argue against what you perceive as the corporatization of the academy if you are compelled to speak in corporate language.
What would life be like for gay Virginians had Cuccinelli won the gubernatorial contest?
For University professors and administrators to take the intrinsic-value argument seriously, for them to make it forcefully to external parties, would mean that they would be asserting another claim at the same time. They would be insisting that the purpose of college is more than just job preparation. They would be saying that college is something more: it is about creating people who can make a life, not just make a living.
